Laos also wants to implement the treatment concept and method of Nepal's Tilganga Eye Institute. The senior ophthalmic surgeon who led the Tilganga team to the free eye camp in Laos from January 23 to 25. Meeting with Sanduk Ruit, the Minister of Health there. Baunfeng Phummalaysith proposed this.

Dr. According to Ruit, the Health Minister of Laos, Phummalaysith, has informed that the program of Tilganga Eye Institute, which has achieved good success with less resources in Nepal, will be implemented there as well by making an action plan. For that, Laos will first send its doctors, health workers and technicians to Nepal to get the necessary training. 

An expert team will also go to Laos to train from Tilganga. "In their country, not only cataracts, but other eye problems are 4 times more than in Nepal, they are going to adopt the Tilganga model to address that," he said, "for that, we will train their manpower and make them skilled, then they will learn the system here."

^{Laos Minister of Health (center) with Dr. Ruit.}

This collaboration between Laos and Tilganga Eye Hospital can open the door for the exchange of cooperation in other fields, not only in the eye treatment there. Ruit said. Laos and Nepal have many similarities, Laos is also a landlocked country in Asia and there is a great potential for hydropower. The population who believe in Lord Buddha is huge. They have great faith in Nepal's Lumbini,' he said. Laos is producing hydropower and selling it to neighboring countries such as Thailand, Vietnam and Cambodia, we can learn from their experience. Doctor under the leadership of Ruit. Bandana Khanal, along with a team of technicians and health workers, performed cataract surgery on 265 people in Laos in two days. In the camp, 15 people who were blind due to cataracts in both eyes were operated on. Dr. According to Ruitt, especially those with cataracts in both eyes were very happy after the surgery.

Foudthalum, a 61-year-old chemistry teacher, was among those who underwent surgery on both eyes at an eye camp in Laos. According to Tilganga Eye Institute's eye officer Namkhen Lama, who had lost his sight for two years, there was doubt as to whether he would be able to see again after treatment. "He was very happy after being able to see the day after the surgery," Lama said, "he was very satisfied that he would be able to teach again after two years."  The

eye camp was organized in collaboration with Nepal's Tilganga Eye Institute, Singapore's 'A New Vision' and Laos' 'Phongsavan Foundation' and Mahotso Hospital . The support of Raju Shrestha, the unpaid Consul General in Laos, was available for the program.